The Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola believes that his side were stronger than AC Milan in Wednesday's goalless Champions League draw at San Siro and the Spanish coach praised his side's combative display against the Rossoneri in their Champions League clash on Wednesday to the lamenting the condition of the pitch at San Siro.And the Catalan giants were in the driving seat for most of the match to be could not convert their superiority into goals as Guardiola's men failed to find the target for only the fourth time in 2011-12 in we played well and he had possession of the ball and we dominated, Guardiola told reporters after their quarter-final 1st-leg encounter to the half-time, I told my players not to take too many risks in despite that we had 17 shots on target while playing with nine players from our youth ranks.A fans must show up in the second leg. These players have given too many things to be left alone to know that the fans will come and the guardiola then followed in the footsteps of Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was highly critical of the condition of the pitch at San Siro during the Gunners Round of 16 tie against the Rossoneri for the AC Milan should take some measures, Guardiola explained and we play do not think that Inter and Milan want a pitch with these conditions.If the referee did not award us those two penalties, it is because he did not see them, the 41-year-old said.
The AC Milan welcome back Alessandro Nesta for tonight's huge clash with Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-final 1st leg, but Ignazio Abate misses out, joining the likes of Thiago Silva and Alexandre Pato on the treatment table to Rossoneri left Nesta on the bench against Roma at the weekend, resting him for tonight's clash to the Thiago Silva missing out with a hamstring injury in the veteran centre-back will partner Philippe Mexes in the heart of the defence.And the clarence Seedorf lines up in the centre of midfield alongside Massimo Ambrosini and Antonio Nocerino in the absence of the suspended Mark van Bommel and the barcelona will line up as planned to inclusion of Seydou Keita for Cesc Fabregas in the carles Puyol fills in at left-back for Eric Abidal is scheduled for a liver transplant and Adriano has a thigh strain. Ibrahim Afellay misses out on the final 18 as he continues his recovery for the Lionel Messi will be joined up front by Andres Iniesta and Alexis Sanchez.Barcelona Squad:Valdes, Dani Alves, Pique, Mascherano, Puyol, Xavi, Busquets, Keita, Iniesta, Messi, Sanchez.Subs: Pinto, Montoya, Tello, Thiago Alcantara, Marc Muniesa, Fabregas, Pedro.Milan Squad:Abbiati, Bonera, Mexes, Nesta, Antonini, Nocerino, Ambrosini, Seedorf, Boateng, Ibrahimovic, Robinho.Subs: Amelia, Yepes, Mesbah, Aquilani, Emanuelson, Maxi Lopez, El Shaarawy.The clash at San Siro kicks off at 20.45CET.
The Ryan Giggs his hoping to have played a 1,000 games for Manchester United before retiring and he has said that practising yoga has kept him in the game for so long and added that he would still love to play another 100 games for Manchester United to the Welshman is chasing his 13th Premier League title, told Gazzetta dello Sport that he has had to change the way he thinks on the pitch but that he is still "living the dream".A yoga has definitely helped me, the 38-year-old said, helps me train every day because it gives me the flexibility and the strength not only to play the game but to train as well and the rarely miss a training session even a little less than the younger players I still go out and train to When you get to my age for you have to change the way of thinking to a quick player when I was younger, now I am not so quick use your experience, use your intelligence on the pitch, to adapt your game and change your game, as I have done.And the Manchester United local rivals, Manchester City, have emerged as the main rivals for the Premier League title this season and Giggs said that we have the experience but City have the hunger, if we both keeping going like this everything will be decided in the derby to asked which players he had been most impressed with when playing against Italian teams during his long career he singled out Javier Zanetti of Internazionale and Juventus's Alessandro Del Piero, calling the former to a complete player.
The former netherlands defensive midfielder Edgar Davids has lavished praise on Barcelona and is convinced Pep Guardiola's side will successfully defend their Champions League title and the 39-year-old in the Barca jersey during a six-month loan spell in 2004 to stressed that the Blaugrana are still very much in the Primera Division title race.A barcelona are not a normal team full of mythological gods in they are on another level to all the other teams to will win the Champions League again Davids was quoted as saying by El Mundo Deportivo and the nine rounds still to go in La Liga for the ex-Juventus midfielder warned that there could be further twists and turns in store in the title race after Real Madrid saw their gap over the Catalans slashed from 10 to six points within a week.And the madrid still hold a comfortable lead, but I believe that the league won't be decided until the last few games in barca will fight till the end, and a surprise could be in store if Madrid lose another game for the barcelona are currently preparing for Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final first-leg clash away to AC Milan.
The john terry insists roberto di matteo is in charge at Chelsea and that he has no say in 1st-team affairs at Stamford Bridge and he was seen giving instructions from the touchline after being substituted in the 4-1 victory over Napoli in the Champions League for the leading to speculation that the Chelsea captain and other senior members of the playing staff were in control.The Terry is shocked by the suggestions and says Di Matteo deserves all the credit for the Blues upturn in form and the response to comments suggesting that I think I'm the manager, I'd like to say Robbie has stepped up and been immense," the 31-year-old told the Evening Standard.They are Chelsea through and through whether I am on the pitch or off to Had I still be on the pitch to would have been saying the same things that I was from the bench is my role as captain of this club and the just because I have come off the pitch, it doesn't mean to say my mentality changes in People might see it in the wrong way to care about this football club we all do and Robbie and his backroom staff deserve full credit.
A Netherlands international has taken the time to praise the powerful forward ahead of this weekend Serie A encounter between Luis Enrique's men and the Rossoneri and the Roma goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg has singled out Zlatan Ibrahimovic as AC Milan's main attacking threat ahead of Saturday's Serie A clash at San Siro.The Netherlands international feels that the former Barcelona striker is one of the best players in the world, and disagrees with the criticism that Ibrahimovic often fails to shine in European competitions for the ibrahimovic is a very strong player who always scores plenty of goals in the he has won league titles with several big clubs and I think he is one of the best players in the world Stekelenburg said to Corriere dello Sport.They are disagree with those who say that he is decisive in the league to not in Europe in they do not know why people would say that to would always want Zlatan in my team and the saturday's game kicks off at 18.00CET as Roma look to improve on their current sixth-place position in Serie A.
The carlos tevez has been a virtual outcast since he allegedly refused to play in the Champions League loss at Bayern Munich and he set up Samir Nasri's winner in the 2-1 win over Chelsea to reduce Manchester United's lead to a point in the 10 days or two weeks carlos will be fitter and in better form and it will be important for us, said Mancini and carlos tevez can play a crucial part in their Premier League title pursuit after 6 months out. They are he is maybe not 100% and he knows football and it was an important, incredible assist for Samir's goal and he plays he knows where he should take the ball. He is an important player to he maybe needs another two or three weeks to spoke to Carlos after the game and he was happy, like the other players and i have been speaking to him every day for the last month and it is normal.And the Argentine came on as a substitute after Gary Cahill's deflected shot put Chelsea ahead, superbly creating Nasri's winner 5 minutes from time after Sergio Aguero had equalised from the penalty spot and the tonight we took three points but not only three points, more than 3 points.
